Being Cellfish

With the recent explanation of how math/rand evolved into math/rand/v2 I got reminded why I first fell in love with Go . Design decisions ...

When using an IDisposable object in C# you have some pretty clear expectations on when that object is disposed. While the same thing is tec...

I came across somebody that was asking about how to test their code. They had a function that would do certain work at short intervals and t...

When I worked in C# I loved LINQ . I also probably used it more than I should have. I have recently looked into some options to bring LINQ t...

 There are a few gotchas with strings in Go if they contain unicode characters.

It doesn't happen very often but sometimes there is a variable name that makes sense that happens to be a reserved word in the language....

I must admit that I often use the words function and method interchangeable. Probably because I was once taught that a method is a functio...

Time for something that really boggled my mind in the beginning; the choice of how time formats are created in Go.

One of the things I miss the most in Go is polymorphism . I must confess that the lack of polymorphism is one of those things that still an...

Last week covered a lot of ground but that articled linked last week did not cover another aspect of Go that might bite you.

Once again I can just lean back and relax as somebody else already did my work.

Learning how to write "good" go code (in some definition of good) sometimes mean you need to unlearn old habits. This is especiall...

When writing Go code the general guideline is not to create interfaces unless it is really needed. A good example would be an interface with...

As a seasoned C# developer you should be familiar with the common pitfalls of closures where a variable in a lambda function is not always w...

Ok, so I was lucky. Somebody else already covered the basics and I share the first impressions covered in this article . Since Java and C# (...

Let’s talk about unit testing and Go. The fact that unit tests typically are placed side by side with the code (in the same package as the c...

This was a funny feature I came across when i was learning Go . I was working with an API that used interfaces and was surprised that some o...

If you are learning Go you know there is no foreach nor while in Go - just for with a few different ways of setting it up. There is a ni...

When I first started to learn Go a few months ago I compared a lot of things to things that was familiar to me; C#. And I decided to make a...

A couple of years ago it was very easy to DoS attack .Net web services as the headers were added to a dictionary. Back then the hash of the ...